. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . m the tower into the nave of St. Benets, Cambridge, isyet another element in a problem which has still to be solved. In the vestry at Monkwearmouth and in the porch at Jarrow are a numberof very interesting fragments of sculptured stones, which are generally allowedto be of Anglian type and date. They show complicated interlacements andvery careful foliage-work; on one of the Jarrow stones two birds are remarkablywell sculptured among the foliage, and there is also a graphic contest between a manand a
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . m the tower into the nave of St. Benets, Cambridge, isyet another element in a problem which has still to be solved. In the vestry at Monkwearmouth and in the porch at Jarrow are a numberof very interesting fragments of sculptured stones, which are generally allowedto be of Anglian type and date. They show complicated interlacements andvery careful foliage-work; on one of the Jarrow stones two birds are remarkablywell sculptured among the foliage, and there is also a graphic contest between a manand a beast. One of the very earliest inscribed Christian gravestones in Englandis in the vestry at Monkwearmouth—IIe?e rests in the body the priest of all the sculptured treasures of Jarrow the most precious is the dedicationstone. Put into English the inscription runs :— The dedication of the basilica ofSt. Paul on the 9th of the Kalends of May, in the 15th year of King Ecgfrith,and in the 4th year of Ceolfrid, abbat and under God founder of the saidGHurch. Q. j^. THE CUUUCH AND CUUKCUYAJU3. STOKE POGES. THE COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. HE form of Gray haunts the field-paths and green lanes ofStoke Poges. His must have been a familiar figure to thevillagers in his later years, for we know that he was fondof solitary strolls; and the minute descriptions in theElcfry sujTffest that he must often have mused in the^ little churchyard. In that poem which is of all othersthe most completely descriptive of the typical EnglishGods acre, he deliberately introduces his own personality, and speculates how, after his death, some hoary-headed swain will recall his vanished form :— There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech,That wreathes its old fantastic roof so high,His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch,And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Many of Grays letters to his bosom friend Mason are dated from Stoke,although he makes little mention of his doings ;
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